Well, I, for one, am very excited because I love going to lectures. This may surprise some of you, but despite almost failing out of high school (I was troubled back then), I ended up being a Dean's List student in university. I was pretty snotty and obnoxious to my fellow classmates, though, but my professors generally loved me.
Anyway, here's the schedule and after that, some outfit pictures to vindicate myself from the dowdy mukluk disaster!
Date: January 22
Time: 2pm - 3:30pm
Subject: A Case Study of Genre Painting in the Ming and Qing Dynasties － A Comparison of the Three Versions of “Along the River during the Qingming Festival” (Putonghua)
Speaker: Mr Yu Hui (Research Fellow Director of the Research Department, The Palace Museum)
Date: February 12
Time: 2pm - 3:30pm
Subject: The Brush Strokes of Bada Shanren (Putonghua)
Speaker: Professor Ren Daobin (Professor of the International College of China Academy of Art)
Time: 4pm - 5:30pm
Subject: The Influence of Huang Gongwang on Ming and Qing Painting (Putonghua)
Speaker: Mr Ho Chuan-hsing (Chief Curator of the Department of Painting and Calligraphy, National Palace Museum in Taipei)
Date: February 26
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Subject: Late Ming and Early Qing Painting in Relation to the Social Changes (Putonghua)
Speaker: Mr Wang Yao-ting (former Chief Curator of the Department of Painting and Calligraphy, National Palace Museum in Taipei)
Date: March 5
Time: 2pm - 3:30pm
Subject: When is a Copy not a Copy? The Aesthetics of Wit in Ming and Qing Painting (English)
Speaker: Dr Koon Yee-wan (Assistant Professor of the Department of Fine Arts, The University of Hong Kong)
Time: 4pm - 5:30pm
Subject: A Study of the Late Ming and Early Qing Painting and Calligraphy from the Chih Lo Lou Collection (Putonghua)
Speaker: Mr Ling Li-zhong (Associate Professor of the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Department, Shanghai Museum)
Date: March 12
Time: 2pm - 3:30pm
Subject: Chinese Garden in Ming Painting: A Case Study of Zhouzheng Yuan and its Depictions by Wen Zhengming (English)
Speaker: Ms Jan Stuart (Keeper of the Department of Asia, The British Museum)
Time: 4pm - 5:30pm
Subject: The Art of Lan Yang’s Painting (Putonghua)
Speaker: Mr Minoru Nisigami (Senior Researcher of the Department of Fine Arts, Kyoto National Museum)
Date: March 26
Time: 2pm - 3:30pm
Subject: Grand Tour and Paintings of Famous Mountains during the mid-Ming Period (Putonghua)
Speaker: Professor Flora Fu Li-tsui (Associate Professor of the Division of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Time: 4pm - 5:30pm
Subject: Sesshu and the Painting of the Ming Dynasty (Putonghua)
Speaker: Professor Masaaki Itakura (Associate Professor of The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo)
Date: April 2
Time: 2pm - 3:30pm
Subject: The Universal in the Particular: The Life of Late Ming and Early Qing Painters Revealed through the Painting by Xiao Yuncong in the Chih Lo Lou Collection (Cantonese)
Speaker: Mr Szeto Yuen-kit (Curator of the Xubaizhai Unit, Hong Kong Museum of Art)
Time: 4pm - 5:30pm
Subject: A Review of the Painting and Calligraphy by Ming Loyalists in the Chih Lo Lou Collection (Putonghua)
Speaker: Professor Wan Qingli (Director of the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Date: April 9
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Subject: Fantastic Mountains in Chinese Landscape Painting (Putonghua)
Speaker: Dr Liu Yang (Senior Curator of Chinese Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales)
Date: April 23
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Subject: The German Collection of Ming and Qing Chinese Painting (Putonghua)
Speaker: Professor Klaas Ruitenbeek (Director of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst)
These lectures will be held in the Lecture Hall of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Admission is free and 150 seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
The Museum of Art is located at 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. For enquiries, please call 2721 0116 or visit Museum of Art’s website: http://hk.art.museum.
Alright, time to vindicate myself! I know I tend to run the risk of looking crazy sometimes with the things I wear, but I don't really mind. If I like it, I'll wear it. However, it can get difficult getting my wardrobe work-appropriate. I think I own too many things that are too short, tight or reveal my tattoos. It's much easier during winter, when I can just layer on more clothes.
I had to go in for my part-time job today, and fortunately, it was only 9 degrees Celcius. How lovely! I got to wear my mother's fabulous high-waisted leopard and roses print (soooo hair metal, isn't it?) trousers from the 1980s. I'm so glad she kept most of her clothes because I don't really need to shop much. I just raid her wardrobe and steal her stuff. I wore it with a slashed and transparent wifebeater I got from this amazing ghetto mall in Kwai Fong (will definitely write an entry about that place) and a red adidas jacket from Korea that my beloved friend, B, gave me. She's visiting from Korea on Saturday, so there will be more pictures of food coming! And I topped it off with my Gucci jacket turned inside out.
I also wore my Moussy boots. Moussy is a really great brand from Japan, and they have a shop here in Tsim Sha Tsui. I was going to write an entry about their Causeway Bay branch because the sales chicks there are really great, but that shop closed down. I haven't been to the Tsim Sha Tsui branch yet. I think it's in Harbour City, though. These shoes are so amazing, do you see the straps? If I remove them, I can pull the boots to go up almost to my knees. As you can tell, I love convertible, dual-function items. Whenever I smith jewellery, I always think of how I can make it dual-function, as well.
I usually dislike tucking my trousers into my boots, but I wanted to go whole hog 1980s.
If the weather had been a little warmer, though, I would have eschewed the fur coat and adidas jacket for my mother's 1980s byblos blazer. Isn't it just lovely? Those shoulder pads! I have square shoulders already, so I look pretty intimidating in this blazer. I'm wearing a Giordano tank top underneath the slashed shirt, by the way. The red belt is from the ghetto Kwai Fong mall. It only cost HKD10!
And if the weather were even warmer, I would have just worn this fur shrug. It's actually a fur collar from H&M that I refurbished with leather strings so I could tie it like this.
